The New York Times has featured a short film on ice diving by Paulina Skibinska as part of their Op Docs series. The thirteen minute film gives the audience the ability “to enter into the story and descend into the depths with the diver, to the point where the world above the water disappears.”

“I spent two years focusing on these themes for this Op-Doc. I ultimately named it “Object,” in reference to the code word that professional divers use to refer to the dead. They don’t use the words “the body,” “the corpse,” “the drowned man” or woman or child, or “the floater” — just “the object.” I thought the term worked perfectly for the kind of film I was making: It is mysterious, just as you don’t know what the diver in my film is diving to find.”

Watch the full short film here.